The Ministry of Health of the United Kingdom issued a statement Tuesday morning advising its citizens to ignore Donald Trump’s claim that pregnant women should not take Tylenol as it could cause autism in their children. Trump said in a speech Monday that pregnant women should just "tough it out” rather than take Tylenol for pain or fever during pregnancy.

Trump oddly claimed that only name-brand Tylenol was partially to blame for an autism spike among children in the U.S. since 2020, and not acetaminophen, the drug in Tylenol. And also not paracetomol, what acetaminophen is called outside of North America. Or its name-brand product, the over-the-counter painkiller Panodol. Just Tylenol.

"I’ve just got to be really clear about this: there is no evidence to link the use of paracetamol by

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